Glitter By Glitter #3 Billie Underground
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We know previously that Dice convinced Billie to work with him to succeed musically, and that he will take care of Billie's existing contract with Timothy Walker.
In this above scene, Dice approaches Timothy Walker at a pub and then they have a talk together. Dice says, "I want Billie and the girls", and Timothy replies, "I can't do that," and further explains that they'll need to redo a lot of things, like the album covers and clothes for Sylk and all those nonsense, even though Dice points out no one cares about the back-up singers.
Dice then says, "if you want your artists heard in this club again", since he's quite a successful DJ. The discussion continues, and Timothy Walker decides to release Billie, Louise and Roxanne from the contract provided Dice give him $100 000 as a form of reimbursement. Dice agrees to it, although there's no scene of him saying Yes, cause the scene immediately changes.
Take note that this deal between Dice and Timothy Walker is not a contractual thing. It's just something they said behind close doors, so there's no official black-and-white.
We now proceeed to New York where Dice previews an underground single for Billie. It's kinda like a demo, where she records it and then uses it as a song to let record companies listen to. Like, if you want to become a journalist, you need to show people your writings, and if you want to become a model, you must do test-shots first.
The song is called Didn't Mean To Turn You On. I think it's a cover of an actual song. Not sure la, just know that it sounds quite old-fashioned and not modern at all or really entertaining to listen to.
So, we see Billie performing the song at two different clubs (due to the two different outfits). You know how in movies, like High School Musical, where the actors and actresses lip-sync to the song they are performing instead of using the footage which retains their live voice?
Mariah Carey didn't do a good job lip-syncing accurately, and it's quite obvious.
Two guys approach Billie and Dice talking to them and asking them to join their new record label, some funny name called Tough Right or Tough Ride or something along that pronunciation. Dice says, "we're keeping our options open", obviously rejecting it because he knows the record label is amateur and unestablished and will not help make its artists succeed.
And Billie was quite surprised about Dice rejecting the offer because she doesn't really know anything about the music industry, and Dice tells her what he's aiming for for a record label like EMI, CMZ, Warner Bros.
EMI is a real record label. It's originated from Britain and is currently the fourth-largest music group in the world. Warner Bros is obviously real la. CMZ is a fictional record company for this movie.
Another club. I think this is the last club scenes you will see for a long time. Dice, being a DJ with many friends and connections, is told by his friend (that girl at the right of the first photo) that someone from CMZ is in the club.
Dice and Billie hence plan their attack. Dice passes the demo tape to her friend to play out loud, and it receives positive response because everyone clubbing dance to it.
The two then approach the CMZ executives, who are listening to the song playing over the speakers. Dice introduces Billie to the two of them and tells them she's the singer for the song playing.
Impressed, they ask the Billie and Dice to stop by at their company the next afternoon. This kinda means they want to hire Billie as a recording artist, which means their plan succeeded. The two go behind and embrace in a hug, victorious.
So easy one meh? This obviously doesn't happen today anymore, but in the past, you could just go up to a music executive with your song playing over the speakers, and if it's good, you're hired? Quite simple and too-good-to-be-true, eh?
The next afternoon, Billie and Dice go up to the CMZ record company building. They open the doors to like this multi-purpose room and hear Didn't Mean To Turn You On playing over the speakers as well. Apparently, one of those two executives last night was playing it for everyone to hear.
One of the guys starts introducing key personnel for a few seconds, and then, it ends with a toast. "Welcome to the family."
Record companies have multi-purpose rooms and they toast champagne together? I thought they were made of studios and studios and CDs and wires and shelves and papers and pens and everything. Hahahaha!
To celebrate the success of being signed to a major record company, Dice and Billie go on a date, with Louise and Roxanne teasing Billie about it. Dice receives Billie with a car and a red rose, which Billie notices.
At their dinner date, Billie asks Dice why he gave her a red rose, and Dice finds it difficult to answer her (because after all, it's a funny question to ask). He merely says it's a nice gesture. Billie asked because she thought guys give girls red roses during dates, but Dice denies it.
"To us," they toast.
Is it mandatory for a guy to give a red rose during a date? And why did Billie care so much anyway. Isn't it obvious that they're falling in love.
As they take their limousine back, Dice says he needs to go up and get something from his house and asks Billie to follow her up, but the full-of-questions Billie tells him she knows he just want to get her into his house. ;D ;D
Still, she goes up, saying she'll go for only 3 minutes, but in the end it becomes a muiscal showcase cause Dice shows Billie the marimba, a xylophone-like instrument that's one of his favourites.
It is in this scene that Dice and Billie share a kiss as one of my favourite Mariah Carey songs ever, Lead The Way, starts playing. Lead The Way is the song with the most raw emotion I have ever heard Mariah gave, no wait, the most raw emotion I have ever heard probably any artist heard (maybe excluding Christina Aguilera).
It's the best song to dance to during a wedding dinner.
After making love, they have a short conversation together, with Lead The Way still playing in the background.
"You know, I don't do this."
"Yeah, I can tell........ *chuckles* I'm just joking."
"Thanks, jerk :D."
"Look, what I wanna say is that... you're different."
"You don't have to say that because we slept together, you know."
And then Lead The Way continues playing as the scene fades to black, until the song is overlapped by another track, which is the most prominent song in this movie, and will be revealed in the next part.
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In the next part, Billie records her first official single of her career and releases it.
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